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NY Post
New York Post
27 Jul 2023


NextImg:Second suspect busted in senseless shooting death of 10-year-old Queens boy in 2021

A second suspect was charged by police on Thursday in the senseless 2021 drive-by shooting of a 10-year-old Queens boy who was killed in a dispute over a driveway.

Ashram Lochan, 29, was hit with murder and gun-possession charges in the death of little Justin Wallace, who was walking with his cousin on June 5, 2021, when they were peppered with bullets, according to police.

The arrest comes more than two years after another alleged shooter, Jovan Young, was charged in the boy’s death.

Sources said cops “scooped up” Lochan after he was released on a gun case.

The alleged killer had been identified as a potential suspect in Justin’s shooting death within a week of the incident but was only hit with weapons charges at the time.

It is unclear why the murder charges for Lochan took so long.

Young, 31, was hit with murder and gun charges just three days after the fatal shooting. He remains behind bars at Rikers Island without bail and is due back in Queens Criminal Court next week.

Ashram Lochan, 29, was charged with murder and gun possession Thursday in the June 2021 drive-by shooting death of 10-year-old Justin Wallace, who was gunned down in Queens over a dispute involving a shared driveway.
Murder victim Justin Wallace, 10.
Justin Wallace, 10, was walking with his cousin in Far Rockaway on June 5, 2021, when he was mortally wounded in a drive-by shooting. The slain youngster’s family said the shooting stemmed from a beef over a shared driveway.
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Police said Justin’s death stemmed from an ongoing dispute over a shared driveway at his family’s home.

Surveillance footage from the scene showed the gunmen pulling up to the Beach 45th Street home in a dark SUV, jumping out and firing at the youngster and his 29-year-old cousin through an iron railing.

Justin’s cousin was hit in the shoulder and survived, but the boy, who was hit in the torso, was pronounced dead after being rushed to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital.

He was just days away from his 11th birthday.

“He kill[ed] my boy over the driveway?” the boy’s grief-stricken father, Albert Wallace, said at the time.

He described his son as a “people person. My son, you see him, you love him.”

Murder suspect Jovan Young.
Jovan Young, 31, was charged with murder and gun possession just days after 10-year-old Justin Wallace was shot and killed in 2021. A second suspect, Ashram Lochan, was hit with gun charges. Now he’s also facing a murder charge.
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Murder victim Justin Wallace, 10.
Justin Wallace, 10, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Queens in 2021 in what relatives said was a senseless burst of violence stemming from a long-simmering dispute over a shared driveway in Far Rockaway.

Proving his point, the slain youngster’s classmates gathered at a moving memorial on his birthday.

“One of these incidents — you’ve heard me say this before, and I mean it — one of these incidents is one too many,” then-NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said at the event. “And this will be stuck for the rest of their lives.”